[blam]

This is a seven page article and I will post each page seperately. If you will wait until I post all seven pages to comment, it won't become so fractured.

[blam]

First peoples

The first 'Britons' were an ethnically mixed group From the arrival of the first modern humans - who were hunter-gatherers, following the retreating ice of the Ice Age northwards - to the beginning of recorded history is a period of about 100 centuries, or 400 generations. This is a vast time span, and we know very little about what went on through those years; it is hard even to fully answer the question, 'Who were the early peoples of Britain?', because they have left no accounts of themselves.

'Throughout prehistory there were myriad small-scale societies and many petty 'tribal' identities...' We can, however, say that biologically they were part of the Caucasoid population of Europe. The regional physical stereotypes familiar to us today, a pattern widely thought to result from the post-Roman Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions - red-headed people in Scotland, small, dark-haired folk in Wales and lanky blondes in southern England - already existed in Roman times. Insofar as they represent reality, they perhaps attest the post-Ice Age peopling of Britain, or the first farmers of 6,000 years ago.

From an early stage, the constraints and opportunities of the varied environments of the islands of Britain encouraged a great regional diversity of culture. Throughout prehistory there were myriad small-scale societies, and many petty 'tribal' identities, typically lasting perhaps no more than a few generations before splitting, merging or becoming obliterated. These groups were in contact and conflict with their neighbours, and sometimes with more distant groups - the appearance of exotic imported objects attest exchanges, alliance and kinship links, and wars.

[mysterio]

Bookmarked for later read. Thanks for another interesting thread, blam.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Well, it was only five pages, plus a page of further reading links, plus this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory/peoples_print.html

[SunkenCiv]

book of invasions

Google

[SunkenCiv]

Stone Pages • Web guide to Megalithic Europe

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